- St Kentigern pip King’s College - Mahurangi make their point - Westlake go five points clear - Wellington College start strong in oldest game - Otago Boys’ win Dunedin derby - Palmerston North under way in Super 8 When the final whistle blew in St Kentigern’s thrilling 27-22 First XV 1A rugby victory over King’s College , you could have been excused for thinking Saints had won the championship itself, so loud were the cheers, and so energised were the post-match embraces. But that was at least a back-handed tribute to the dogged adhesion King’s – one of last season’s easybeats – brought to a gripping contest between two previously unbeaten teams in which they trailed throughout but still somehow threatened to nick a win in a see-sawing contest at St Kentigern. On a day of otherwise predictable 1A results, this game was in doubt until the very end, and it would have been no surprise if it had been King’s celebrating after 70 minutes.
King’s coach Ian Robinson cut an animated figure all day and, as the contest entered its final throes, his late protestations about foul play awakened everybody else to the fact a touch judge had quietly raised his flag. Related articles Gregor Paul: The major changes in pipeline for Auckland First XV rugby How to make your kid an All Black: The schools shaping champions ‘No comment’: My strange year inside Auckland schoolboy rugby's media ban From the resultant penalty King’s had one final chance to launch a forward as.
